Hairpin



April 20; 1926.

H. H. WALTZ HAIRPIN Fil'ed June 24. 1925 INVENTOR BY 6 %a/ W AfiiNEY Patented Apr. 20-, 19 26- I mam. H. waxxrz, or OAKLAND, oamromvm.

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- Application filed June 24, 1925. Serial No. 39,219.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAZEL WALTZ, a

i citizen of the United States, residing at Oaka pair of contacting members.

It is well known that the common type of hair pin is. prone to dislodge and slip out from the hair upon unexpected occasions, and which occurrences necessitates the use of many pins for the holding of the dressed hair in place to assure that some will remain and function. Also with bobbed hair in vogue it is difiicult to keep the front-side hair from the eyes by the present pins because of their insecure hold to the short hair at the ears. Therefore, .with. the end in view of overcoming the above deficiencies, I have designed a in which can be relied upon to hold the air firmly in place and where desired and with a minimum number of pins, one on each side of the head being sufficient to hold the hair from the eyes.

Some women have but little hair and they find it very diflicult to secure false hair thereto with any degree of assurance that the same will remain fixed by the present means of attachment, which generally is to bend and twist ordinary hair pins about the anchoring strands of hair, so a further object of my invention is to meet the problems attendant with those who have but little hair and with those who have thin hair.

As a hairdress by profession I have encountered the multitude of hair problems facing the hairdresser, and as a solution to the problems I have provided a hair pin of a design and structure that will efiiciently accomplish the retention to the head of hair, whether it be thickly or thinly covered, with such attachments as bobs, swirls, curls, puffs, waves, braids, clusters, side pieces, ear muifs, switches and all weft attachments, also flowers and other hair decorations, and by the same pin means hold'the natural hair where and in the form desired.

Other objects and advantages and the features of construction of the invention, will appear inthe subjoined descrition of the accompanying sheet of drawings in which:

Figure 1 is an edge view of a hair pin constructed in accordance with my invention, and Figure 2 is a face view of the same.

Figures 3 and 4 are views similar to Figure 1 but with the free ends of the pin rounded differently; and

Figure 5 is also an edge view similar to Figure 1 but with the pin legs of equal length.

Adverting to the various figures of the drawin I will now describe the invention in detail: For the purpose of clarity I have enlarged all the figures to bring out the features of the improvement. The letter S designates a single strip of material such as spring steel, spring brass or other suitable material having resilient-properties, and is of a broad width W compared to its thickness T. The strip is bent over about midway of its length to form legs 6 and 7 joined by a bend 8.

The resultant structure is a pin having a pair of legs substantially the length of the structure and terminating in free ends 9 and 10 and a slender loop 11'. By the resilient material formed as shown, the legs will be constantly urged toward one another, thus effecting a contact pressure throughout their length. The legs are straight and parallel, and one of them is slightly longer than the other to efiect a parting of the legs with ease by the finger nail when it is desired to put the pin into use. The ends are also slightly rounded as an aid in the insertion of the pin through the hair, stem ends, wefts, etc. It

.is to be observed that the free ends do not flare outwardly as I have found such a construction unsatisfactory in insertion and engagement purposes and also they have a tendency to scratch the scalp.

' In operation, the hair attachment selected 1s placed upon the head and on or in the hair where desired, and by inserting the forcedapart mouth of the pin into and over strands of natural and unnatural hair, or into stem ends or through the meshes of wefts incombination with natural hair strands a resilient holding and locking engagement is effected by the urging of the pin legs to press against each other. In wefts one pin at each end is suflifcient and for a large head of hair one in the middle is advisable. For weft attachments and in the old way of securing them to the average head of hair, I have used as many as ten or twelve ordinary pins, but with myimproved pin in use two will sufiice. From this it is obvious another great advantage is gained, namely, the

- ilit of pins is reduced to a minimum. And

a sti 1 further advanta e gained is that one may bend over or the ead maybe shaken with practically no danger of the false hair attachments beingldislodged or shaken off due to the long area of binding surface of my improved pin which efiects the holding an agement.

mm the foregoing description taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the advantages of the construction and method of operation will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and while I have described the principle of operation, to-

gether with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment, thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such than es may be made, when desired, as fall wit in the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire. to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is the followin 4 1. g hair pin made of spring material having greater width than thickness, consisting of two opposed legs, each 1e of said pin having par lel side ed es an a connecting bend, the said le being of the same width and in contact wit each other at their free ends and for the major length of the 1n. p 2. A hair pin consistin of two opposed legs, made of spring material having width than thickness, each leg of said having parallel side edges and a connecting bend, the" said legs being of the same width and in contact with each other at their free ends and for the majorlength of the pin, anld one of said legs being longer than the ot er.

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